false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173372447m/278281.jpg 278281 7 Think Bladerunner in the tropics... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling. Three separate stories follow three main characters: Edson is a self-made talent impressario one step up from the slums in a near future São Paulo of astonishing riches and poverty. A chance encounter draws Edson into the dangerous world of illegal quantum computing, but where can you run in a total surveillance society where every move, face, and centavo is constantly tracked? Marcelina is an ambitious Rio TV producer looking for that big reality TV hit to make her name. When her hot idea leads her on the track of a disgraced World Cup soccer goalkeeper, she becomes enmeshed in an ancient conspiracy that threatens not just her life, but her very soul. Father Luis is a Jesuit missionary sent into the maelstrom of 18th-century Brazil to locate and punish a rogue priest who has strayed beyond the articles of his faith and set up a vast empire in the hinterland. In the company of a French geographer and spy, what he finds in the backwaters of the Amazon tries both his faith and the nature of reality itself to the breaking point. Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality in a hugely ambitious story that will challenge the way you think about everything. 269900 book 3 5 2007 Brasyl total:198|5:36|4:77|3:60|2:16|1:9| 198 709 436 52 5 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 17:49:38 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 14:25:18 -0700 2008
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So, what we have is a novel in three streams; one follows a TV presenter in present day Brazil. Another follows a Jesuit prie...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 21 15:36:51 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 15:36:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 13:02:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 17:00:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 11:06:23 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 18:26:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 6 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 12:45:55 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 12:58:00 -0700 2009 obsessive) readers, we have all come to know our individual tastes rather well. We know what books will hit our literary G spots and which will leave us feeling cold and dirty, like the regretful afterglow of a one night stand. We learn to savor those reads that are a “...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 14 19:50:50 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 19:13:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Apr 10 21:02:34 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 18:31:50 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 21:02:16 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 15:54:23 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 12:22:44 -0700 2009
McDonald's got a great style for this kind of book, alt...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 13 14:40:37 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:40:37 -0700 2009 Brasyl is a marvelous example of such synthesis.[return][return]Each chapter contains three storylines set in pa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 16:12:57 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 16:20:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 21:39:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:21:27 -0700 2009
This book has a three braided plot, with one braid in Brazil's colonial past, one in it's urban present, and the other in a strange future. The past follows a Jesuit priest set on a Heart of Darkness quest to stop a renegade Jesuit who has carved out an ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 24 09:45:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 23:02:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 10:34:57 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 08:42:04 -0700 2008
I couldn’t finish this one either. This is set in Brazil with three different time lines: 1300's, 2006 and 2036. I made it 1/3 of the way through and honestly, I couldn’t even begin to tell you what the premise of the book is. I spent most of my attention trying to de...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 17 12:13:23 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 19:10:33 -0700 2008 Braysyl takes place in Brazil, but in three different time lines - 2006, 2032, and and 1732. The separate story-lines don't so much come together, as you discover they were never actually separate.

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